..is an '88 E250 w/ a 300" inline 6. I grabbed her off a 2 hr. sweep of Craigslist in PDX after my Suburu lost her tranny..mercifully a BLOCK from the noshoulder Ross Isl Bridge. She's an ex-Quest contractor's rig with lotsa phoneware still in the build-in toolbox. Learned more than I cared to about EFI 1st gen. from the 48 hrs. that followed, but drove her back to Tacoma. On the way I was rear-ended by a Semi in the grannie lane of I-5. Barely a dent later, she still runs the length of Puget Sound and provides a lovely kennel for our 135 lb. newfie puppy. Gun metal gray with the orig. Gold Beach Electr. Co. logo still visable. I've still got under a grand, total, into her a year later. You can fit a full band PA into the back and still have room for a 3-piece to thrash. I'm taking her to the filming of PINKS next weekend in Kent, WA.
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Sun, September 17, 2006 - 11:06 PMThere's an E250 going by my name in Tacoma? If that don't beat all... -
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 6:42 AMShe was named after a long-lost vaudville schtick ("It's me again, Margaret..") ..but we'll check the Castle family tree.... -
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Tue, September 19, 2006 - 6:37 AMMy grandfather played ragtime in Olympia circa '35. Think an earlier variation goes back that far......substitute leiderhosen for blackface... -
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Tue, September 19, 2006 - 12:10 PMNeat. It makes sense that it's an older song. Margaret used to be a popular name way back then. When I was a little kid, I used to see the old vaudeville performers throw on big shows at my Dad's theater. It would run a couple weeks or more in "season" in the 70s. One fellow, I think his name was Paul Hepner worked year round. He had worked, I think, behind the scenes on the circuit. I remember him telling me about working with the Three Stooges before they went Hollywood. I dont remember them singing me any Margaret songs, but this was the old Yiddish circuit.
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Re: Margaret the Rolling Castle
Sat, November 11, 2006 - 7:42 AM..M the R C began sucking a few tbs. brake fluid for no damn reason whatsoever whenever she wanted a month ago..so I know wheel cyl. gods demand sacrifice. We've tracked into a pineapple express..and are getting a half-foot rain each of the last two weekends. The driest her brakes get is during light showers on I-5..where we were yest. AM Someone in front of us dropped a bag of clothes into the granny lane. The nimrod in front of me decided to slow down and STOP to check it out...right next to a WA State Trooper who was calling it in. Margaret did exactly what her instructions told her to do...40-to-20mph..wheel lockup..drift to the right and into the breakdown 'pits'--stopping a GOOD 100ft. from the Stater's lap! -
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Sat, November 11, 2006 - 11:39 AMHeeeeyyyyy! Watch it with the foot mister. :)
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Sun, December 24, 2006 - 7:04 PMFriday night, Margaret-not-the-punker spit her valvetrain just as I reentered civiliz. 15 mi. from Mt. Rainier. She rests in the Elk Plain Grange parking lot..flowers and donations to the Bunkie Knudson scholorship fund are appreciated. I have a choice between hoofing it to Olympia tomorrow and putting clutch parts into a 200.00 Nisson...or walking 20 min. and reattaching a driveline and finding the short in a hundred dollar LUV with a doggie door out the back of the cab suitable for my 140lb. newfie pup....we like CL! -
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Sun, December 24, 2006 - 8:24 PMKaff kaff kaff.
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Mon, December 25, 2006 - 9:44 AMThank you for your condolences. We will be playing Margaret's favorite song: Bakersfield, by Braindead Soundmachine, at the burial-TBA
Did the Luv have an Izusu or a Toyota motor? Anyone?
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